Dvořák - In Love? (1988)

How it feels

This documentary explores Antonin Dvorak's Cello Concerto and the imagined love story that inspired it. It follows a new recording of the concerto by Julian Lloyd Webber and the Czech Philharmonic. The film was originally banned in communist Czechoslovakia.

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What happens

Dvořák – In Love? is a 1988 documentary film about the Czech composer Antonín Dvořák and a recording of his Cello Concerto by Julian Lloyd Webber and the Czech Philharmonic conducted by Václav Neumann, which was made in the same year. The film also tells of a love affair for the composer that never was, but was the inspiration for the concerto. Originally a co-production with Czechoslovak Television, the finished film and its political content could not be shown in Communist-ruled Czechoslovakia. Two years later, after the fall of communism, the film was the first documentary to be shown on the newly-liberated Czechoslovak Television. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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